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Dr Syrithe Pugh

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Email Address
s.m.pugh@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272623
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Old Brewery F06

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School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

Biography

 

Before coming to Aberdeen, I studied at Oxford and Princeton and taught at Leeds. My research focusses on the Renaissance reception of classical literature, and particularly how C16th and C17th English poets used classical imitation and allusion to reflect on contemporary events and political issues.

 

I have published two monographs exploring these questions in relation to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, the first focussing on his relation to the irreverent love poet and political exile Ovid, and the second (which received the Isabel MacCaffrey Award) on his nuanced and revisionary engagement with the Augustan laureate Virgil—both revealing a radically independent sense of poetry's social role and relation to power. A third monograph explores the use of classical imitation for political ends by royalist poets in the period leading up to the English Civil War. I have also edited interdisciplinary volumes on classical intertextuality and on euhemerism, and published articles on a wide range of Renaissance poets, and several chapters in handbooks from Oxford, Cambridge and Blackwells.

 

At Aberdeen, I am Director of Research for the School of Language, Literature, Music, and Visual Culture, and co-director of the Herbert Grierson Research Centre. Beyond the University, I am Chair of the Classical Association of Scotland’s Aberdeen and North of Scotland Centre, contributing editor for the online journal Spenser Review, and a member of the editorial board of Spenser Studies. 

 

I welcome enquiries from students interested in postgraduate research on Renaissance poetry, especially anyone interested in focussing on poetry and politics, or classical imitation and intertextuality.

 

Latest Publications

  • The Translator’s Mask: Paratext, Persona, and Prosopopoeia in Spenser’s ‘Virgils Gnat’

    Pugh, S.
    International Journal of the Classical Tradition
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An acrostic ‘FAS’ at Geo. 2.490-92 and Culex 94-6

    Pugh, S.
    Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Chasing Virgil's Gnat: Spenser as Translator of Latin

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Studies, vol. 40
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Dumaeus Culex: Introduction, Transcription, and Annotated Prose Translation

    Pugh, S.
    Edmund Spenser, Complaints: Containing sundry small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Brown, R. D., Chaghafi, E. (eds.). Manchester University Press, 41 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Culicis sint carmina dicta: Virgil as Gnat

    Pugh, S.
    Proceedings of the Virgil Society
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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Research

Research Overview

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Research Areas

English

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Research Specialisms

  • English Literature 1200 -1700
  • Classical Reception

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Publications

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  • The Translator’s Mask: Paratext, Persona, and Prosopopoeia in Spenser’s ‘Virgils Gnat’

    Pugh, S.
    International Journal of the Classical Tradition
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An acrostic ‘FAS’ at Geo. 2.490-92 and Culex 94-6

    Pugh, S.
    Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Chasing Virgil's Gnat: Spenser as Translator of Latin

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Studies, vol. 40
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Dumaeus Culex: Introduction, Transcription, and Annotated Prose Translation

    Pugh, S.
    Edmund Spenser, Complaints: Containing sundry small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Brown, R. D., Chaghafi, E. (eds.). Manchester University Press, 41 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Culicis sint carmina dicta: Virgil as Gnat

    Pugh, S.
    Proceedings of the Virgil Society
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Road Not Taken: Dante’s First Eclogue and Virgil’s Career

    Pugh, S.
    International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 367–393
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in Herrick’s ‘The Hock-Cart’

    Pugh, S.
    English Literary Renaissance, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 62-99
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • L. B. T. Houghton, Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 390, ISBN: 978-1108499927, £90

    Pugh, S.
    International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 28, pp. 533-536
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Euhemerism and its Uses: The Mortal Gods

    Pugh, S. (ed.)
    Taylor and Francis, London. 346 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Introduction

    Pugh, S.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts

  • Tracking Titan from Boccaccio to Milton: Euhemerism and Tyrannomachy in the Renaissance

    Pugh, S.
    Euhemerism and Its Uses: The Mortal Gods. Pugh, S. (ed.). 1st edition. Taylor and Francis, pp. 148-179, 32 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Adonis and Literary Immortality in Pastoral Elegy

    Pugh, S.
    Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality. Pugh, S. (ed.). Manchester University Press, pp. 179-229, 41 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality

    Pugh, S. (ed.)
    Manchester University Press, Manchester. 261 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • SUSANNA BRAUND and ZARA MARTIROSOVA TORLONE (EDS), VIRGIL AND HIS TRANSLATORS (Classical Presences). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 520. ISBN 9780198810810. £110.

    Pugh, S.
    Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 110, pp. 315-317
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • ‘Gods that faine to be’: Political Euhemerism in Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos

    Pugh, S.
    English Literary Renaissance, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 28-73
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Alex Wong, The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Review, vol. 48, no. 3, 7
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Jonson and the Cavalier Poets

    Pugh, S.
    A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. Bates, C. (ed.). Blackwell, pp. 325-338, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Orpheus and Eurydice in the Middle Books of The Faerie Queene

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Studies, vol. 31-32, pp. 1-41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 'Spenser and Ovid'

    Pugh, S.
    Edmund Spenser in Context. Escobedo, A. (ed.). Cambridge University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Spenser and Virgil: The Pastoral Poems

    Pugh, S.
    Manchester University Press, Manchester. 350 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Lindsay Ann Reid, Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Review, vol. 44, no. 3, 63
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Reinventing the Wheel: Spenser's Virgilian Career

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser in the Moment. Hecht, P., Lethbridge, J. B. (eds.). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Rebecca Helfer, Spenser’s Ruins and the Art of Recollection

    Pugh, S.
    Review of English Studies, vol. 64, no. 267, pp. 887
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Alpers, What Is Pastoral?

    Pugh, S.
    Spenser Review, vol. 43, no. 2
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Marlowe and Classical Literature

    Pugh, S.
    Christopher Marlowe in Context. Bartels, E. C., Smith, E. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 80-89, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Review of Frances Cruickshank, 'Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne' and Margaret Fetzer, 'John Donne’s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions'

    Pugh, S.
    Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 403-405
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Review of 'Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth‐Century France' by Paul White

    Pugh, S.
    Renaissance Studies, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 725-727
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Supping with Ghosts: Imitation and Immortality in Herrick

    Pugh, S.
    ‘Lords of Wine and Oile’: Community and Conviviality in the Poetry of Robert Herrick. Connolly, R., Cain, T. (eds.). Oxford University Press, 26 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Spenser and Classical Literature

    Pugh, S.
    Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser. McCabe, R. A. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 503-519, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

    Pugh, S.
    Ashgate, Farnham. 196 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Ovidian Reflections in Gascoigne's Steel Glass

    Pugh, S.
    The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603. Pincombe, M., Shrank, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 571-586, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Fanshawe's Critique of Caroline Pastoral: Allusion and Ambiguity in the 'Ode on the Proclamation'

    Pugh, S.
    Review of English Studies, vol. 59, no. 240, pp. 379-391
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sidney, Spenser and Political Petrarchism

    Pugh, S.
    Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators and Translators over 700 Years. McLaughlin, M. L. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 243-257, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Sean Keilen, Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature

    Pugh, S.
    Bryn Mawr Classical Review
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

  • Acrasia and Bondage: Guyon’s Perversion of the Ovidian Erotic in Book II of The Faerie Queene

    Pugh, S.
    Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions. Lethbridge, J. (ed.). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 153-194, 41 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • "Cleanly-Wantonnesse" and Puritan Legislation: the Politics of Herrick’s Amatory Ovidianism.

    Pugh, S.
    The Seventeenth Century, vol. 21, pp. 249-269
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Ovidian Exile in the Hesperides: Herrick’s Politics of Intertextuality

    Pugh, S.
    Review of English Studies, vol. 57, no. 232, pp. 733-765
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • "Rosmarine” in the Masque of Blacknesse: Jonson’s Herbal Medicamina Faciei?

    Pugh, S.
    Notes and Queries, pp. 221-223
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spenser and Ovid

    Pugh, S.
    Ashgate, Aldershot, United Kingdom. 304 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

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